Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-14
GAINESVILLE.
4 Wife Returns from q Visit TO Reia-
tiYes to FiBd that Her Husband
Has Deserted Her.
Il Supposed Glow &c The Murderer OF HT!ts
Watkins Euras Out to Do without
EOuuGaEfOu-LocsI News.
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Special to the Gazette.
GAINESVILLE, Tex Aug. 1.-THE St
tent'Cn Of Inc Commissioners court To-
Cay was largely taken up with examining
claims presented against the county. It
was sIso determined &c have new coun-
y rcsd opened from the present end Of
Grand avenue il the northern part OF the
CITY to S4cTa's ferry, on Red river. The
es,imstel cost OF the :osd s SlQG4, ore
half Of which 5 to be borne by the county
and the other Is by private citizens.
County Judge Hsyw0rth was granted
ten days leave OF absence from the county
by the Commissioners.
The Mayer disposed al two cases this
morning, one for tghuug Gsd the other
for b-ing drunk eDQ troublesome. The
usual hles were assessed in bo;h CSsee.
Tue following is the lust OF real estate
transfers r. corded by tee County Clerk
during the past few days: I 4 Z anton
ID Il H1Hcoc&, IS acres Edward Brad
ley survey, @40o; A. H. L3nierS. ct 81 t.
J. W. Bailey, hall lot %, bcck -, Fer
lines addition, SIS; 2. L. Dodson 10
Mrs. B. S Sutton, part NJ. d BulAp
-nrY.y, So W. ". Uoweth 10 re
Hawthorn, et al ,G30 acIes L c. Mbs
survey, $50; J. &. Watkins 70 lanes
CInaiDGhaE, part J 1serh Worley suryeEF
500; J W. Chi.drCSs to K-uEer'ysss.&
S9ragGs, part \, Boutwell, suiy,y, SS3o;
S J K-unerly to J p. SpTagins, part a
Boutwell, survey, $500; z. w. Crump ard
L ". V,LUs 10 3 \. Mum, part lot :,
blocl J., S-yiec & G,iob c addition, So:
~ L. Garmary 10 II. L. Saelbane, part
lot !, block -, Sewer & Gci5o!e add
lion, $50; J NJ. Farley, administrator
estate b. ( Fsr.eY, deceased, to Q. Cham
bers, lot >, block 81, Lipdasy's addition,
$500; h. a Num- to s.. H. Gsrnary,
part lot !, blUcE !, Sewer & Gibtlr od-
dttion, Sl60; James Cunningham / JGhu
AueT, part Joseph WoTley survey, 500.
The third bale of cotton marketed here
this season was brought in to-day By J.
q Miller IRON near Pella In Wise county.
The inmates of several bawdy house S
located near the business pOrLiOa Of the
city have been ordered by the city author
tiles to seek more retired quarters by
Monday.
Last spring Mrs. George NJ. Whitney,
wife ct tire teen manager q he Glines-
vile S,aam Laundry, Lett fora v,sir to
Guelph, Canada, 10 see her mother, VINO
VS. very III. For several mOaths after
h5r departure from mere she rec iyad let.
ters from her husband which We're cleer-
tui ard Respondent in tura. Finally the
letters stOp2 4 together, and, receiving
no money from Whitney to return home
on, Mrs. Whitney's brother lent ter tee
maneytO come mere She arrived yesterday
afternoon, aud going TO the house where
che and her husband formerly boarded
she was amazed TO learn that he had mar
IioG another, Miss Ida Mcconnell, e lit
tie over g lmoD.h age, On the Santa Fe
train bet #een here and Purcell, 81 &C
couGt Of which marriage appeared ia THE
GAZETTE at the time OF It's occurrence.
MIS- Whitney has ia her possession the
marriage certificate given her by the Cli-
cjating minister at the time of their 1851
rage, Jane 8, 1872, 81 Albany, \ Y,
SAo wing tnat she and George VI. Whltney
were duly end legally married. Il waa
well known here at the time OF the mar
risge on the rail that Whitney had bsen
married before, but as Mrs. Whitney had
been gOGe several months il was not pos
itiveiy known whether or not she YES
still living or had secured divorce from
her husband. Mrs. Whitney is greatly
distressed at the existing state OF affairs,
ard much sympathy IS expressed for her.
Captain T. j. Brown Of Sherman WAS IL
the city to-day.
W. 2. Rjviere and vile returned 10 day
from their bridal tour ard visit to rela-
lives in Georgia.
Sam Lazarus of Sherman is in the, city.
L. B Edwards, cashier Of the Red
RIVER BRuk, returned from visit TO Ten
nessee to Qsy.
a bundle of clothes, consisting CT q
night shirt and pair of drawers was found
q day or two siGCe in the garden Of u
house sisuated about 100 yards from the
Bostick residence, where Miss Watkins
was murdered on July Is. a meat
hatchet was found wrapped up in the
! bundle, and both clothes aud Ratchet hsd
stains on them which was apparently
made by blood some time age. The bun
die had evidently been lying where it was
found for some time, and il was thought
that clew to the foul murder had been
at last found. After investigation, how
ever, 1t is believed that there is Hothi Q
in the discovery, ana that if the bundle
was thrown there by any one concerned
in the murder it was done for the purpose
81 casting suspicion upon some innocent
person.